Senior Employment Solicitor
Are you an experienced Employment Law Solicitor looking for a role where your expertise truly makes a difference? Join our Legal team and help our clients navigate complex workplace challenges with confidence and clarity
Why join us
WorkNest is on an exciting journey of growth, and as part of that journey, we’re recruiting for a Senior Employment Law Solicitor to join our highly respected, high performing Legal team.
Supporting several of WorkNest’s largest and most important clients, you’ll play the important role of ensuring that our clients are able to meet their commercial objectives, as well as complying with the law and allowing the client to clearly consider the consequences of none / partial compliance if this is their consideration.
What We Offer
- Salary: Up to £59,000 per annum
- Great Benefits
- Fantastic opportunity to make your mark and be part of a thriving business
- Growth and development opportunities
- Regular employment law updates from our dedicated PSLs
- A sophisticated case management system
- Opportunity to support Trainees through the WorkNest Academy
- A supportive and inclusive work culture
- Work/life balance with no billable hours
- Opportunities to work from home/ hybrid or office based
What you’ll be doing
As a WorkNest Employment Solicitor you’ll be providing a brilliant service to our clients as you provide legally compliant and high quality advice to your own portfolio of clients across the UK. You will be advising on a range of issues, including restructuring, TUPE, discrimination issues, and settlement negotiation. You’ll work with your own dedicated portfolio of clients and build long-lasting relationships with them.
There are opportunities to get involved with our marketing team, delivering webinars and seminars, as well as contributing to blogs and articles. You may also want to get involved in coaching and supporting our paralegals and NQs through our WorkNest Academy.
About you
You will be a qualified legal professional (Solicitor or Chartered Legal Executive) with a minimum of 3 to 4 years PQE as an employment law solicitor/adviser. You will be a high performing professional, with the ability to develop and nurture client relationships, whilst providing commercial and pragmatic advice in a timely manner.
Who we are
WorkNest is part of a wider GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) division owned by Inflexion. We are a powerhouse of Employment Law, HR, Compliance and Health and Safety support services, weaving pragmatic advice with powerful technology platforms. We have experienced exceptional growth over the last 24 months, fuelled by the acquisition of several leading business services groups, which has bought together the most gifted practitioners in employment law, people management, health, safety and wellbeing, professional training, and business technology. We are proud to offer a broader range of services to help protect and nurture organisations of every size.
We have a national presence with main offices in Chester and Glasgow, where our I legal and HR team includes more than qualified employment law solicitors, xx qualified HR consultants, – strive to be the organisation of excellence that employers turn to for nurture and protection. We’re known for our personalised, high-quality support and pragmatic, commercially-minded approach – as well as being a great place to work!
At WorkNest, we believe our people are what make us. We value, respect and support our colleagues, understand the importance of work-life balance, and work together to deliver a brilliant service for our clients.
We are committed to delivering on our four core values that we believe all our colleagues should align with: Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork and Inclusion.
So what’s next?
If you think this role is a good fit for you, please use the purple ‘apply now’ button to begin your application. You’ll be asked to submit a CV and covering letter outlining how you fulfil the person specification for this post.
WorkNest is committed to creating a culture of Inclusion and ensuring that everyone – job applicants, clients, colleagues, and anyone else we deal with – is treated fairly and with respect. We continuously review our policies and processes to support our aim to create a diverse team, however, please speak to our Talent and Recruitment specialist if there are any adjustments, we need to make in order to ensure, a genuine equality of opportunity.
Closing date: 28th July 2025
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About WorkNest
WorkNest is a powerhouse of employment law, HR and health and safety support services, weaving pragmatic advice with powerful technology platforms.